Though early voting had commenced earlier in the week, the election concluded with a bang on Saturday. Even though there are still as many as 500,000 votes that have not been counted yet, the NDP government has come out strong in this election. Noted below are some questions for you to answer which are located in the below articles. Feel free to use other articles to guide your responses!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-election-results-2020-1.5776058
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-election-2020-here-are-the-results-for-all-87-ridings-1.5159780
- Did the NDP’s win a majority or minority government?
- How many seats did the NDP, Liberals and Greens win?
- In which year did the NDPs last win a majority government?
- How many ridings are there?
- Who was elected in your riding? What is the name of your riding? How many votes did the winning politician receive?
- How many voters turned out to vote? How many registered voters are there? Do you think that this number was enough or could it have been higher?
- What were the 3 major policy re-announcements that the NDP ran with?
- What were 2 major reasons why Andrew Wilkinson was criticised?
- What were the 3 major issues in which all parties were criticised for?
- Last but not least, what were your opinions, thoughts, reactions of the election? (at least 5-7 sentences)
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